What does DA:I in space mean, and why is it so horrible?

- Fetch quests, literally 98% in the game are fetch quest. This is not even so much the problem because all rpgs have them. However in DAI they were all uninspired. "Go fetch my husbands ring templars stole it* *walks a few feet gets ring* "You found my ring, kthanxbai" *mission complete*. That's lazy, there's no other word for it.
- Locations that were pretty but otherwise empty
- Terrible combat (worst in the DA franchise). Played like an MMO. No matter what class you played. This was made worse by the fact almost all of the classes were broken.
- Shallow characters, with shallow banter revolving around sexual acts, looks or fashion or otherwise engaging in petty highschool arguements (looking at you Dorian/Viv). With the exception of characters like Solas or Cassandra. Can't forget Varric, I probably wouldn't have played the game for as long as I did if not for him.
- Subpar main story and cookie cutter villain.
- True ending released as dlc.
- Poor balancing, especially when it comes to difficulty. It seems the idea to make the game harder was to turn archers into tanks and give mages god tier barriers. Nightmare mode was actually more of a chore than a challenge. If you were say a reaver, it just meant spamming the same dragon rage button for longer just to kill 1 mage/archer.
- Terrible AI. While many games have bad AI few are as frustrating as DAIs. Ranged characters who charge tanks. I once spent around 15 minutes closing a fade rift because those frost demons actually hopped outside of the vacinity and had I followed, it would have reset the fade rift lol. Closing fade rifts just became a game of waiting because of those demons. I'd usually just stand at the rift and press X repeatedly to disrupt the thing until the squad could kill the demon.

To this day I only went through the story once, a first for a Bioware game. I installed Trespasser but never actually got around to playing the game to that point. It got to a point where I just couldn't tolerate the combat. By the time of Trespasser better games were also out. Also winning a few awards doesn't mean much. If I remember correctly DAI didn't have much competition around the time it came out. It was a bit of a dry spell for wrpgs then. Fallout 4 wasn't even out yet, neither was Witcher 3.  Still I don't think it was that successful, it was nowhere to be seen in NPDs top 10 sales literally 2 months after it came out, strange for a game that launched on around 5 platforms, and EA never disclosed it's sales which is very telling.

What? The biotics got better and better with each ME. Combos for instance did not exist until ME2. I really have no idea what you could possibly be referring to, such blanket statement with no information provided to back it up. 

What? The biotics got better and better with each ME. Combos for instance did not exist until ME2. I really have no idea what you could possibly be referring to, such blanket statement with no information provided to back it up. 

What? The biotics got better and better with each ME. Combos for instance did not exist until ME2. I really have no idea what you could possibly be referring to, such blanket statement with no information provided to back it up. 

In ME1 you were actually challenged to use all your skills in a battle against a mob. They all had longer cooldowns which forced a more tactical approach and made every skill useful. In ME2 & 3 this was scrapped entirely for a more streamlined approach. Not only did we have access to less skills but biotics became more spammable. You could spam the same two skills for the entire game and write off all others. I'm sorry but that was not fun. It was boring and broken. The fact that you could just charge and nova your way through ME3 on its hardest difficulty just shows how broken they became with each ME. In ME1 biotics still felt to me like I was playing an RPG. The physics in ME1 were also amazing, a singularity would pull in surrounding objects. Something not really repeated to the same effect in later installments.

I'm not playing a 70 hours RPG just to read a bunch of long-ass wall of text that has little to no relevance to what my Inquisitor is supposed to be doing.  Sorry. 

I, and many others who played the game, don't care about some huge lore dump of some Avvar war chief that you randomly stumble across when exploring.  As the saying goes, "Show, don't tell".